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A review by mnboyer
The Gatekeeper's Sons by Eva Pohler
1.0
Let me begin with the following: I'm not sure why this book is receiving such high reviews. Perhaps the fact that I received the free Kindle one plays into my review, but at the same time, I think a lot of my problems are with the book itself.
1) The writing is sloppy, and someone needed to go through and heavily edit this book before it was published. While some of this may be a Kindle issue, the Kindle did not write this novel. There are terrible moments of dialog that do not make sense. The scenes are often more about appearance (oh wow, the sons are hot, tell me more... but then don't tell me more) and lack any depth in terms of character development, emotion, etc. Scenes are completely unbelievable--but this stems from problems with the plot.
2) Plot? The plot lacks any sense of realism, which is a problem for me. I allow some suspension due to the content (Greek myth was supposed to be fun, but it gets stifled here) but there are so many problems. The main character's parents die, and she seems to move on quite quickly and just goes about being on her own (keep in mind she should be 15). She is supposed to be 15 but acts like a 5-year-old the entire time (no hero here) until moments where she fantasizes about a boy around 18 (ok, wonderful, is this the 15/18 age relationship we want to approve of for young adult readers) which seems childish at some moments and adult at the other. But here is the biggest problem with the plot..... the main character is supposed to track down and kill the person that killed her parents in an accident? What? Really? No.
I like young adult fiction. I like Greek mythology. Maybe I expected this to be a little like Percy Jackson (my fault for assuming it would be) but it is nothing like this at all.
Save yourself some time and skip this one. I got it for free and spent way too long reading it.
1) The writing is sloppy, and someone needed to go through and heavily edit this book before it was published. While some of this may be a Kindle issue, the Kindle did not write this novel. There are terrible moments of dialog that do not make sense. The scenes are often more about appearance (oh wow, the sons are hot, tell me more... but then don't tell me more) and lack any depth in terms of character development, emotion, etc. Scenes are completely unbelievable--but this stems from problems with the plot.
2) Plot? The plot lacks any sense of realism, which is a problem for me. I allow some suspension due to the content (Greek myth was supposed to be fun, but it gets stifled here) but there are so many problems. The main character's parents die, and she seems to move on quite quickly and just goes about being on her own (keep in mind she should be 15). She is supposed to be 15 but acts like a 5-year-old the entire time (no hero here) until moments where she fantasizes about a boy around 18 (ok, wonderful, is this the 15/18 age relationship we want to approve of for young adult readers) which seems childish at some moments and adult at the other. But here is the biggest problem with the plot..... the main character is supposed to track down and kill the person that killed her parents in an accident? What? Really? No.
I like young adult fiction. I like Greek mythology. Maybe I expected this to be a little like Percy Jackson (my fault for assuming it would be) but it is nothing like this at all.
Save yourself some time and skip this one. I got it for free and spent way too long reading it.